Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer?

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's alw…

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once lea…

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, d…

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.