Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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...

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.