"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood."

"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."

"There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age."

"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."

"I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure."

"Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong."