You can't unscramble an egg.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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…

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.