I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

All is flux

One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success. And I assure you

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.