The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Ignorance is a crime against ones self

God writes love and speaks poetry.

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Displease the Winter King and we'll none of us see another spring.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

I'm not part of any organization that has initials.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.