Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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…

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.