Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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.