“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.”

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Be the first to say, “Hello”.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don’t let him down.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

It is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

I’m like a child who belongs to nobody.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.