What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

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.

You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't. Simple Introspection.

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.