It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

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.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.

You only live when you truly get lost in love.

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.