A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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…

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.