Talkback 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.

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

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.