Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

A second-class is a first-class mistake.

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.