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...

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.