Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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...

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.