There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

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…

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.