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 grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.