A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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...

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.