Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.