Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

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...

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.