Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

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.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.

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