Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

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…

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.