My Life

In whatever you do always remember that you are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you.

While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

It is with this idea in mind that I choose to do unto others what I expect them to do unto me. However we are all never perfect and are bound to fail in one way or another but since the finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling, it is my hope that we will treat ourselves and one another thus tenderly.

I will count myself to be successful only if I am able to laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because I have lived