If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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…

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.