Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

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...

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.