Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

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…

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.