It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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…

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

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.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.