Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
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. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Give no man sympathy because he has to work – it is his blessing that he can.
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.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don’t always ask.
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that ‘someone’ is us.
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.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Parents who indulge themselves ‘in moderation’ may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
The test of love is in how we live.
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
Things I don’t understand don’t destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
We must not let the things we can’t do keep us from doing the things we can do.
Happiness mainly depends on man’s ability to work and the way in which he does it.
Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn’t do.
Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.