I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself--if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself--it is very difficult to take care of another person.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.