A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

Sometimes God must confine us in order to free us.

I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.