Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.