What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.