Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.