It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Do you like kids?Only with barbecue sauce.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.