"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items."

"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short."

"Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home."

"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney."

"Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward."

"This is the short and the long of it."

"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."

"When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror."

"You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."