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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

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...

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.