Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Time is everything; time is quality.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.