Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.