1. “If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don’t use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.”
2. Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.”
3. “No one can take advantage of you without your permission.”
4. “If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”
5. “Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.”
6. “People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don’t consider it servitude.”
7. “The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”
8. “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
9. “A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.”
10. “Maturity is the ability to live in peace with which we cannot change.”
11. “Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.”
12. “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”
13. “The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.”
14. “A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.”
15. “Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
16. “Pity the poor millionaire. He’ll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.”
17. “One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.”
18. “A happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
19. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
20. “The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.”
21. “maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.”
22. “Marriage is not a reform school.”
23. “There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.”
24. “Being interested more important than being interesting.”
25. “No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.”
26. “No person ever died by drowning in their own seat.”
27. “What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.”
28. “Many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
29. “The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”
30. “Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
