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...

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.