Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

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...

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.