He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The comforter's head never aches.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.