Melancholy is the joy of being said.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.