Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

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

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.