I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.