I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.