The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

During the course of your temporary hurdles, keep searching for a tad of optimism

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.