Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.