When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat.

"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it."

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.