Our power is in our ability to decide.

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

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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...

Nevercut what you can untie.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.