There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

Now is surely the best time to get started, because you can never procrastinate your way into the land of success.

That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to understand

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

I'm definitely not the person to be giving anybody dance lessons.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.