Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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…

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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