What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

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...

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.