Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

We wait patiently to receive want we desire.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

A man's integrity isn't found in what he does for others, but how he feels about it after it's done.

I have a good ear for languages.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

The world of the dead wonʹt give you up a second time.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.