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

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

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

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

Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

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

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.