As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on your way to being a remarkable man.

I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.