The greatest prayer is patience.

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

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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...

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.