Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

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…

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.