A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.