Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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...