Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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...