you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Pain is the outcome of sin.