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

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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...

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.