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

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.

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.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Where words fail, music speaks.

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.