Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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...

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.