If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends