My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
The world was hers for the reading.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.