What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

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...

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.