Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou