It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

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

It is a good reader that makes a good book.