Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.