Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

As long as there is life there is danger.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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…

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.