To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Look back, and smile on perils past!

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

Time is the best killer.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.