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...

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

A language is like living skin itself.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.