It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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...

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Well done is better than well said.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.