Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove 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…