Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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...

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

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

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges