You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.