It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.