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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

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

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.