Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

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…

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

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.