Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

Always listen to yourself. Believe in you and believe in what you do. And even when other people say you can't handle that.

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.