One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.