Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

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.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.