Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

You are the capital U in Unhelpful.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.