Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.