It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture.

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.

I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.