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.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Some people are in church but not in christ because if you are in christ, the first sign of true christianity is peace.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.