It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.