The great hope of society is in individual character

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.