Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.