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

No strength within, no respect without.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Only the educated are free.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.