The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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