Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever.It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly.It just has to be there.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.