The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

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.

We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities.

{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

If I'm not feeling good, I load on jewelry. It gives me energy and makes me feel happy.

I write the most sexiest records out.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.