A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.