God has created the world in play.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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…

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.