The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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.

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.

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 brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.