Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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...