I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

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

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

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

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

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.