Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

Fill what is empty empty what is full

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

Save this gift given to us.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

If you don't know how to do it, get around someone else who does.