Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.