Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.