Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Ignorance is not an extension of time