The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

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...

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Only the educated are free.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.