I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

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.

Never meditate nor dwell on the past

The principles of kingdom of God are imprinted on human spirit

I get $13 [a week] now, because I’m 13.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.