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…

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Those who trust us educate us.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.