Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?