The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

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.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.