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.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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...

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.