Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.