Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'