Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

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.

In the strength of God, you can crush any army

We live in a culture of violence.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.