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.

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

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

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

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.