A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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