A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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…

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.