The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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...

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.