Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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

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

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.