Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to