Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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…

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.