The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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...

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.