I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

Every voyage is a new glorious experience.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

There is no little enemy

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

The Christian church was born in song.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.