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

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

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

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.