People loan their trust, they don't give it.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.