Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.