The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

If God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge that means God is limited to our ignorance.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

A child falls many times in attempt to walk.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

There are some things that sorry can't fix. - Acheron Parthenopaeus

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

I think I always stand up for what I believe in.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.