The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

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.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.