We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Rudyard Kipling

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Rudyard Kipling

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine.

Rudyard Kipling