Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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…

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.