Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.