Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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...

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.