RICHARD L. EVANS

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Someone has to do everything that is done.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

Live so as to have a quiet conscience.

Enjoy life while it is happening.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.