The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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...

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.