We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.