All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

To feel the joy of life, love what you do.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.