When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.