The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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