Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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.

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings!

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.