Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Say it new or say it straight.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.