Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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...

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

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

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Only the educated are free.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.