Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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...

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.