“Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.”

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

What you do for money you do badly.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

The greatest thing about America is this country is the place everyone wants to be.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.