Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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 greatharmony.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.