Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

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…

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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