The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for The Voice, I thought "Why not be the first one to do it?"

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.