The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.