The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The property of power is to protect.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.