When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they have to die again?

There is at least one truth in every myth.

Expect success. Desire success. Attract success. Realize success.

A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.