No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

A violent order is disorder

You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

Every person has the responsibility over their own territory.

You don't know it... but you can play dumb - right!?

Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.