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...

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.