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…

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.