Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.