Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.