You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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.

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...

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.