Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

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...

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.