When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.