Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation plan carefully before making a move and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Using these unnamed sources if done properly carefully and fairly provides more accountability in government.