Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.

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.

By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Sometimes silence can kill that a sword cannot

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.