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…

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.