It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.