"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it."

"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."