Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.