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

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.