The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.