Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

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.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The elderly are useless eaters.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.