Master yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and you master the whole universe.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Some things come with their own punishments.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.