I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.