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...

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.