The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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…

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.