If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

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...

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.