What is well done is done soon enough.

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…

Ability is poor men's wealth

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.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.