You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

Mistakes are their own instructors

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.