The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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 tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.