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...

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.