Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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...