An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.