I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.