Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.