The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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…

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well