Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.