Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

As a leader you should look in the mirror and ask yourself would I follow you ensured of a victory.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic