Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

You have to feel love to harness its power!

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.