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...

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Only the educated are free.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him