If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.