For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

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.

The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I'm taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister