At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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…

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.