A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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

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...

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.