“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.