Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

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.

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the weapons of Knowledge and Discernment.

If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?

No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.

I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.