Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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…

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.