Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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...

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Genius is a long impatience.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise