A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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...

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

What is well done is done soon enough.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.