Where there is a will there is a way.

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.

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.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.

There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

John Toshack hates me.