Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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…

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.