“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”