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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for unless it's contagious!.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly, they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.