An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I apologize for apologizing." "Thank you.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.