The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.