Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.