Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

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.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.