“We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us, how we take it, what we do with it and that is what really counts in the end.”

“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”

“Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.”

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”