Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

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…

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.