We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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 you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.