I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!His brow was sad; his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Exce

Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod.

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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.

Oscar Wilde

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.

George Eliot

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Viktor E. Frankl