Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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…

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.