When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side