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...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.