Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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...

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.