The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Many beautiful dreams die prematurely because the dreamers don’t have enough fuel to drive through the rocky roads and the patience to wait.

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

[Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

Love: a grave mental disease.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.