Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.