Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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…

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.