Quotes

Some [mothers] are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the 100th with a beauty.

[on ambition] All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

[on work] The secret of joy in work is contained in one word--excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The truth is always exciting, Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.