If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.