Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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.

Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are!

fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

The grey mare is the better horse.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?