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

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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...

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Compromise,n. 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.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and