Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

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.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

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