If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.