Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

It takes courage, strength, and conviction to love someone deeply, persistently, and endlessly.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

Struggles are inevitable, just as much as pain.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.