You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

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…

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.