Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.