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.

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.

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 very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.