Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

I wont let him have you.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.