Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.

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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

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