When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

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 want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.