Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

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...

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.