Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.