To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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 ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.