No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.