All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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...

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.