If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.