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

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

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...

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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