"It is tranquil people who accomplish much...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]”

“A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.”

“If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”

“Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

“True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.”

“I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.”