When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.