“O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”

“Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.”

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”

“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls.”

“Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile”

“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”

“Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!”