Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.