Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Each problem has a positive side.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.