The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.