Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Let us be grateful and express gratitude for all those beauties and magic of our life.

Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.