In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

The last moment is past; this moment is present; and, the next moment will be future. The past, present, and future change with every tick of the clock.

The girl is poised against a changing world, and yet represents a sense of permanence in a world that is mutable. She has some simple secrets and her life is just a source of missed times.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

It is only so long as a man can retain the child in him that life can be free from those dark shadows which leave inevitable furrows on a man’s forehead.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.