Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.