Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

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.

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.

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

He loved her all he could

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible!

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

My childhood was extreme.