A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.

He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.

I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

I made a deal with sharks. I don't swim near them and they don't play cricket.

I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.