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…

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Example is better than following it.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.