Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.