Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

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.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.