The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.