If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

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.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.