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.

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.

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

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

Happier than a bird with a french fry.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.