Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.