Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

History is the devil's scripture.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Certain signs precede certain events.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

All of us are products of our childhood.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Time is the best killer.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.