Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

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

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.