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.

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.

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.

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.