Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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…

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

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.