It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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...

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.