Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?""Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.