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…

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.