To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Ittakes time to save time.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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...

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.