In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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...

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.