To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

He was a professional member of Sigma Delta Chi American College Public Relations Association Religious Public Relations Council and Phi Delta Kappa. Also by William Arthur Ward: For This One Hour Thoughts of a Christian Optimist Prayer Is. William Arthur Ward (1921–March 30 1994) author of Fountains of Faith is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

More than 100 articles poems and meditations written by Ward have been publiWilliam Arthur Wardd 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.