When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

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...

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

He understands badly who listens badly.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.