Children have helped me a lot.
The difference between a good govt. system and its poor administration is easily explained; the chief administrators are not Bosses in the best sense.
Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.
Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.
President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
What is life but education, anyway?
There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.
I know nothing and my heart aches.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.
The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.
I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
