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...

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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.