To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The best place tofind God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Happiness depends upon ourselves