My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.