The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable" respectively.

Love is the end of sympathy.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.