Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

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.'

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.