You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.