"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.
Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.
Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.
A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.