Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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…