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...

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.