We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

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.

Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art