Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.