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 room without books is a body without soul

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.