Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

God made time, but man made haste.

You can't unscramble an egg.

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