Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

Life is an adventure or nothing

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea