The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony