Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

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…

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.