If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members.

One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

The more complicated the machine, the more problems I find it has.