The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.