There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him familiarly and with confidence and love as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.