The workshop of character is everyday life.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.