Charles A. Dana

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.