Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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...

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.