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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

God made time, but man made haste.