In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.