The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence.

We can _start_ making Christmas and Santa can finish up.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.