To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body?Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically?

Your smile has magic in it.

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I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found.

I often stand by the merchandise booth, point to a poster and tell people, 'That's me.'

It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.