Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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...

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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

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

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.