We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.