We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

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.

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

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The moment you're born you're done for.