The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try.

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.