Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Benjamin Franklin

Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Sidney Madwed

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Francis Quarles

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

Theodore Roosevelt, Before Liber

Remember that credit is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Did I do a whole life's laughing in that little time?

Stephen R. Donaldson

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Hugh Grant

You can't eat compliments.

Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

June Allyson

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

John Williamson

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald