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…

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.