Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.