Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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…

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.