Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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...

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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

Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.