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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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...

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.