In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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...

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.