Evil communication corrupt good manners.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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...

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.