A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.