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...

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.