To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.