Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.