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

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.