Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Habit: the shackles of the free

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...

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

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

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.