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…

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.