Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

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.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High Schoo.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.

A song is a poem set to music.