Sweet is pleasure after pain

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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...

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.