Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.