No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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.

Rene Caron takes my breath away!

There are a lot of voices in the world causing confusion however, the Voice of the Holy Spirit is still Unique

Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars, ' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.

To worry is to wear yourself out.

My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.