Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
There is a skeleton in every house.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.