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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Until you have kids, you can’t imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

Children and young people are the future; they are our strength; they are what keep us moving forward. They are the ones in whom we put our hope.

The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.