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…

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

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.