The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.