The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Malice drinketh its own poison.