If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.