Three factors combine to determine your life — heredity, environment and yourself. And the greatest of these is you. If you find nothing in life, invariably it is your own fault. Boredom and futility are the results not of where you are, or how much or how little you have, but of what you are. Life, even under circumstances over which you have no control, is largely what you make of it.

Thoughts by the late Rev. Paul Osumi are selected weekly by his family.