A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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...

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.