Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.