Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.