“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.”

“The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.”

“To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.”

“Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.”

“To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try...”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”