Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

The blank face of the moon looked down wistfully on the pair and tried to lean in just a little closer.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.