People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

No one can move without some leadership.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.