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.

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.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

A chatWith the Grim Reapershould be enough to scareaway any thought of relapse.Wish it were that easy, but not even days conversingwith death can disintegratethe claws of addiction.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.