The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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...

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

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