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...

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.