I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out