We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.