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...

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.