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

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

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.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.