Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

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

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the