People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they’d been disappointed too many times in life and just didn’t have the courage to keep hoping things would change

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

I gotta keep the clip loaded so if I have to shoot, I will.