Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.