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…

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.