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…

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

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

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.