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.

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.

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

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

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

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.

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