“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”

“One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”

“If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.”

“Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.”

“Eating without conversation is only stoking.”

“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.”

“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.”

“No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.”

“Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.”

“The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.”

“It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.”