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...

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.