Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

I mean, Rex Tillerson is in the business of exploring and finding oil across the globe.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.