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...

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free