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...

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.