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...

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The comforter's head never aches.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.