“He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.”

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

To a young heart everything is fun.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

To inspire others Is to be immediately rich In the inner world.

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.

The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

Nothing works unless you do the work.

To have what few have, do what few do.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.