Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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...

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.