Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.