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...

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.