1. "Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes."
2. ”Fear imprisons; faith liberates; fear paralyzes; faith empowers; fear disheartens; faith encourages; fear sickens; faith heals; fear makes useless; faith makes serviceable.”
3. “Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
4. "He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."
5. "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. "
6. “I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”
7. "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."
8. “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No lifeever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
9. "Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best."
10. “To laugh often and love much. To win and hold the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of little children. To earn the approval of honest critics and to endure without flinching the betrayal of false friends.
11. “To appreciate beauty always, whether in earth's creations or men and women's handiwork. To have sought for and found the best in others, and to have given it oneself. To leave the world better than one found it, whether by nurturing a child or a garden patch, writing a cheery letter, or working to redeem some social condition.
12. “To have played with enthusiasm, laughed with exuberance, and sung with exultation; to go down to dust and dreams knowing that the world is a little bit better, and that even a single life breathes easier because we have lived well, that is to have succeeded.”
13. "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
