"Education is a   task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected."

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.66, Thomas Nelson

“Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.”

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”

“There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.”

“At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.”

“I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.”

“The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.”

“Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”

Source : "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.