More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader's Digest
, This Week, The Upper Room, Together, The Christian Advocate, The Adult Student, The Adult Teacher, The Christian Home, The Phi Delta Kappan, Science of Mind, The Methodist Layman, Sunshine, and Ideals.
His column Pertinent Proverbs has been featured in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
and in numerous service club publications throughout the United States and abroad.
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Before you speak, listen.Before you write, think.Before you spend, earn.Before you invest, investigate.Before you criticize, wait.Before you pray, forgive.Before you quit, try.Before you retire, save.Before you die, give.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.