i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back