It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing.

One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

You have heroes? No? what kind of feeling exist in you?

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.