Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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…

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.