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...

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.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.