If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.