If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.