By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

First master the fundamentals.

My favorite Muppet? Uh... Kermi -- no, Animal. Animal is my favorite now.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.