Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Nostrength within, no respect without.