That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.

If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.

Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.