Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

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