Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Family, nature and health all go together.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

Love trumps fear, laughter trumps tears, and abundance trumps loss.

The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.