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.

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.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

If God be for us who can be against us?

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Love is to be cherished because you're lucky to feel it even once in your life.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.