It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.