Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.
We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face we must do that which we think we cannot.
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.