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…

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.