Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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…

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Thereare two sides to every question.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.