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…

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.