“It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.”

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A well begun is half ended.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

I have nothing to say and I can’t help but think that says a lot.

Pain comes in waves, it can help us rise up but it can also knock us down.

Life is about building memories, creating energy, and helping people.

We must stand together. I’m going to help in any way that I can.

Educate yourself, hold the people around you accountable, seek ways to help, and don’t sit on the sidelines.