The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.