As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

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...

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.