Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
We should worship as though the deity were present.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.
There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J. F. ] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives or in the lives that they intend to lead in school. When they begin to teach, they come into their classrooms with a sense of affirmation of the goodness and the fullness of existence, with a sense of satisfaction in discovering the unexpected in their students, and with a longing to surprise the world, their kids, even themselves, with their capacity to leave each place they've been. . . a better and more joyful place than it was when they entered it.