Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay.... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.