We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.