“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”