The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The read more

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that read more

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap read more

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.