It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

God has created the world in play.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.