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…

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.