One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

Put it on your forehead and you'll feel better in no time!

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.