Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

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…

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

There is no knowledge that is not power.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Ability is poor men's wealth