The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.