Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.