Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

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...

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

God made time, but man made haste.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.