“He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.”

Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the lives of those within our circle of influence.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Leaves dance on twisted arms, swaying on the breeze as though choreographed by unseen hands. Even the faithless could find themselves converts, by the smell of dampened earth and its blossoming rose.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.