If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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.

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…

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.