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...

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

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.