“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

You need to listen to us, us who cannot vote. You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren. What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.

We’re Children, Teenagers, Women. We aren’t flames, but we have fire in us.

I let my mind wander and it always finds its way back to you. like a sweet-toothed child in search of a cookie jar.

Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.

As a child, I loved playing hide & seek, but now it seems like I’ve been lost for a long, & no one is looking for me.

I was a glittering sea waving at me, like a child smiling in his father’s lap, the waves lapse every time the sea sees the child in me!

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.