Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.