It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

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.

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