To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

The home is a place where we show our children that we can communicate, learn, and succeed together.

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

Hope is immeasurable anchor.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It’s the only way to save ourselves.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.