Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

When someone else doesn’t believein you or your dreams, rememberit’s about them, not you.

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

No Such Thing as Bad Results