Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Well, it turns out a hero's lot is not glory or reward, but sacrifice.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.