To get your ideas across 
use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.

~   John Henry Patterson

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~   Sophia Loren

Happiness must be cultivated. 
It is like character. 
It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, 
or it will run to weeds.

~   Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Tact is the knack of making a point