Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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…

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.