The ripest peach is highest on the tree

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

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.

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

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.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.

It's no fun being lonely.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

I don't watch television.

Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.