Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

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...

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.