Poems List

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.