Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.