People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

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.