Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.