Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.