The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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...

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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