All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Those who trust us educate us.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.