It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.