What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.