If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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…

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.