Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

A life's meaning comes not from the manner in which one dies, but in the manner in which one lives.

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

The more important one feels the greater the illusion is.

The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.