The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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...

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.