The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

You soon know the difference between a real newspaper and an electronic one as soon as a fly won't leave you alone.

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

For most people, the authentic things are relationships, friends, and family.

The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.