Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

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…

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.