Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Don't expect a great day; create one.

Being famous is just a job.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.