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

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

There are no have-to's, just choices