"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy." — Laurence Sterne

"You will never win if you never begin." — Helen Rowland

"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." — Hannah Arendt

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." — Anne Frank

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." — Albert Einstein

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake." — Matthew Prior

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." — Vernon Howard

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." — George Eliot

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." — Frederick William Faber

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." — Jean Paul