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…

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking