Neversay more than is necessary.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

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…

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man