You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

God is our great helper, shelter, provider and protector.

There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.