The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.