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

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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…

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.