Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

Happiness is an inside job.