A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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...

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.