Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.