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

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.