"My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not." — Indira Gandhi

"We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities." — Fred G. Gosman

"A father who will pursue infant care tasks with ease and proficiency is simply a father who has never been led to believe he couldn't." — Michael K. Meyerhoff

"Whenever I try to recall that long-ago first day at school only one memory shines through: my father held my hand." — Marcelene Cox

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic." — Jean Sibelius

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." — Thomas Fuller

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." — Martha Washington

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'" — Sydney J. Harris

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward

"Asserting yourself while respecting others is a good way to win respect yourself." — Janice LaRouche