Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.