Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

Don't worry about what others think about you

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.