We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack.

The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off.

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete. When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, Immoral Wife. The title is Immortal Wife, the clerk replied. I'll get it for you. Oh, please don't bother, If that's the correct name of the book, I don't think I'd care for it. I had something else in mind.

During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. Please ... please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them.

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: What do you do for a living? I study astronomy, he replied. Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. I finished astronomy last year.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.