Our distrust is very expensive.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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...

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.