Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate and allowed -- are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be preferred, then even though a man seem to have faith in Christ, yet Christ is not the foundation to that man.

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.

The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Love the sinner but hate the sin.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.