The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.