Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.