If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you, but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion, and thankful in prayer.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
He's so old his social security number is two digits.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.