The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate so much. You can always be sure of this: You cannot express hatred for anything or anybody unless you make use of the supply of hatred within yourself. The only hatred you can express is your own personal possession. To hate is to be enslaved by evil.

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given by a man who was crucified. He summed it all up when he said, "Love one another." One does not really need to fight for success. One can love one's way to success.

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.