Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

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.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?