To beprepared is half the victory.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to