Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

You gotta have goals!