Christ is the Master of my fate. Christ is the Captain of my soul. Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. Their demeanour is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment. I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognised wiser than oneself. Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.