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...

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion