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

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.

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

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.

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.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

I don't believe in coincidences.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.