A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

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.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.