Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.

Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.

I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.

Daughter, that's life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful. All any of us can do is to try to be ur best, and to learn from our mistakes, as well as our victories

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."