You can actually get a lot more done if you put everything away when you finish something and sweep up the sawdust.

There is no virtue in the black layer that accumulates in coffee-cups -- it does not add flavor or put hair on your chest. It just harbors microbes.

Dogs, horses and cats do not admire timidity.

You can get ten miles from being interested for every yard you can get by being interesting.

Any time you can spare a little admiration, do so -- it will come back multiplied.

Communication really is the universal solvent, but you have to apply it with intelligence.

An ounce of compassion is worth a pound of cure.

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