Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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