The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.