The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically how could I not?

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.