A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.