Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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.

While we mortals fumble through ambiguity, he never loses his harmony #MyExperiencewith498A

Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident

Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.