Steady of heart and stout of hand.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Travis: Happy anniversary, Pidge.Abby: One down, forever to go.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

For many young girls, [Barbie is] their first association with fashion and dressing up and changing clothes.

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.