The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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…

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.