Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

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…

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

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

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.