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…

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.