A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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...

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.