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 great harmony.

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…

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Liberation is not deliverance.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.