Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

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.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I probably spend six hours on just my mascara. I like to get that "Hi I want to ******* kill you" look.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.