“I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."”

“If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.”

“Change is automatic, Progress is Not!”

“The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.”

“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.”

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.”

“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”

“The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.”

“There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

“If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.”

“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.”

“When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.”

“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”