I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law. . . there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp. . . ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elicits empathy, promotes learning, creates an intellect you simply cannot get from any other medium. For me, it is air.
Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.