Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

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...

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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