Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .