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...

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.