If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.