Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

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.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.