Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

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.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

I know enough of God to want to know more.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.