It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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…

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.