The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

absolute power is corrupting

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.