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…

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.