You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.