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…

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

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

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.