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 canobserve a lot by just watching.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.