A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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…

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Power tires only those who do not have it.