“It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.”

Unslumping yourself is not easily done.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am – that’s a great thing to be!

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Maybe we could begin entwined – not whole – but one again.

The happy ending is that it is not ending.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’

It’s a win-win situation when you make your debut with a superstar like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, or Sunny Deol. The audience walks in to watch the actors they idolise; they also end up noticing beginners like me.

I couldn’t experience an end with you, because you have always been a beginning to something new every day.

The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.