You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it.

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.