I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.