We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I never know how much of what I say is true.