If you ain't never 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…

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

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

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.