When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

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…

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

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

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.