Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

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

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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…

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

When weblame, we give away our power.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.