Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.