Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Compromise,n. 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.