If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Example is better than following it.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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…

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.