Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.