To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.