Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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…

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.