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Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Reform is born of need not pity.

[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so you share your lives with people.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God in his infinite mercy has seen fit to place us to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life whatever it may be.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.