Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

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.

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.