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...

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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