We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.