The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

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.

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.

No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.