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

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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.

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…

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.