Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

All hell broke loose.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.