children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

Adventure is the champagne of life.