Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

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…

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes