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…

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.