Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Nevercut what you can untie.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out