Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.