One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.