We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Well done is better than well said.

Buying ischeaper than asking.