The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Compromise,n. 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.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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