Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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...

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.