The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

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.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

Hope . . . never stops at all.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.