Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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.