"When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace."

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing."

"If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have."

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise…."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

"You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill."

"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want."

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule …."