It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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 greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.