Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.