The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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...

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.