Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

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.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.