All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.