That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

I like to keep things as simple as possible, that's just part of who I am.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.