Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

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...

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Power comes from sincere service

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.