Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes