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...

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.