Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you