Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

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.

Inspiration is a lifestyle that must be practised continuously and is one that is never completely mastered.

Living life is a courageous act.

Man..." He blew out an exasperated breath. "Do you push everyone away this hard, or is it just me?

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.