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…

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.