The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.